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Ontario lakeside
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# Posted: 28 Jan 2013 12:56pm
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Hey all
I have a 500 gallon water tank that I want to fill from our lake. The tank is about 50' higher than the lake and the pipe would be about 110' long. I have a six hp gas pump with a 3" outlet.
I don't want to lay 3" pipe all that way. Do you think I could reduce the out flow to 3/4" without creating to much friction in the pipe?
Any advice is welcome
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GomerPile
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# Posted: 28 Jan 2013 01:08pm
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This will help:
http://www.sunpumps.com/engineering/engineering.php
@10GPM you lose 11 feet of head switching down to 3/4 from 3 inch.
You might look at the spools of black poly hose which can be had up to 1.5 inch at any local building supplier. Worst case you buy a second roll and run them in parallel if things dont work as expected.
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Just
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# Posted: 28 Jan 2013 01:38pm
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I have a 4hp honda it has 2 in inlet and outlet fittings when I bought it I reduced them to 1 in . inlet and 3\4 outlet I use the pump often. to pump a 1500 gal. tank full..I bought the pump in 1988 .the only repairs made were a new start rope last year ..YOU should be fine!!
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